"we're just waiting for some people to die"

"We're just waiting for some people to die." That quote has stuck with me since it is unfortunatly the truth. Some people will never be capable of not being racist it seems. All the knowledge and proof can't seem to shake people from their viewpoints. On some level, I can understand the racism of the older generation since that was the time period they grew up in. Their whole life they were exposed to these racist ideals so it's natural they would continue to hold them now. I wish that once that generation is gone, they'll take their racism with them. If they themselves only held these ideals then they would. Unfortunatly many of these are passing along their racist ideas to the younger generation. I've witnessed this myself, watching my parents pass along their racist ideas to my younger brother. Somehow these are sticking in him. I was raised in the same household, lived in the same neighborhood, and went to the same schools. How did I escape these ideas yet he's absorbing them? Hopefully further exposure to the world will have him realize that my parents don't have the right idea at all.

andrea burns